55 Health Care Hypocrites

As we all know, the Republicans have had virtually nothing to offer in the way of health care reform. It seems like the only thing they are interested in is protecting the obscene profits of the huge private insurance companies.

One thing the Republicans have especially opposed is the creation of a public option for health insurance -- something along the lines of Medicare for Americans of all ages (even Sen. Snowe opposes this). Now it looks like this Republican opposition to public insurance has turned at least 55 congressional Republicans into hypocrites.

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-New York) decided to do a little investigative work to see what kind of insurance members of Congress had. He discovered that 151 members of Congress were covered by Medicare (exactly the same kind of public insurance being denied to ordinary Americans).

Of that 151, 55 of them were Republicans who have voted against and campaigned against the public option for health insurance. That's just mean and selfish that they would oppose giving ordinary Americans the same kind of public insurance they themselves enjoy -- and it makes them hypocrites. Here are the names of those 55 hypocrites:

Rep. Ralph M. Hall ----- Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett
Rep. Sam Johnson ----- Rep. C.W. Bill Young
Rep. Howard Coble ----- Sen. Jim Bunning
Sen. Richard G. Lugar ----- Rep. Don Young
Sen. Charles E. Grassley ----- Sen. Robert F. Bennett
Rep. Vernon J. Ehlers ----- Sen. Orrin G. Hatch
Sen. Richard C. Shelby ----- Rep. Jerry Lewis
Sen. James M. Inhofe ----- Rep. Ron Paul
Rep. Henry E. Brown ----- Sen. Pat Roberts
Sen. George V. Voinovich ----- Sen. John McCain
Rep. Judy Biggert ----- Sen. Thad Cochran
Rep. Harold Rogers ----- Rep. Dan Burton
Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon ----- Rep. Frank R. Wolf
Sen. Christopher S. Bond ----- Rep. Michael N. Castle
Rep. Joe Pitts ----- Rep. Tom Petri
Sen. Lamar Alexander ----- Rep. Doc Hastings
Rep. Cliff Stearns ----- Rep. Sue Myrick
Rep. John Carter ----- Sen. Mitch McConnell
Sen. Jon Kyl ----- Rep. Phil Gingrey
Rep. Nathan Deal ----- Rep. John Linder
Rep. Kay Granger ----- Rep. John L. Mica
Rep. Walter B. Jones ----- Sen. Jim Risch
Rep. Ed Whitfield ----- Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner
Rep. Virginia Foxx ----- Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison
Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite ----- Sen. Saxby Chambliss
Sen. Michael B. Enzi ----- Rep. Elton Gallegly
Rep. Donald Manzullo ----- Rep. Peter T. King
Rep. Ander Crenshaw